sed has the unfortunate property that it reduces dos format line endings to unix format line endings. thus, sed will change every line in a dos format file even if it had made no changes to the text.
this makes sed unusable or undesirable for a large number of files i might want to edit. is this behaviour an artifact of the Cygwin port? _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/